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Intel transformed from a technology company to a management company. That somewhat explains their highly unreasonable behavior.
by integricho 9y ago
Intel transformed from a technology company to a management company. That somewhat explains their highly unreasonable behavior.
- Valmar 9y agoManagement can seriously make or break a company in various ways. It sucks... :/
- mrmondo 9y agoCould not agree more, unfortunately I’ve seen the latter more often than the former. When you find good management it is truly inspiring however.
- mseebach 9y agoThere's some bias to this, though. Good management is much more "everything and everybody just seemingly by if self seems to be more or less in the right place" and less "Steve Jobs screaming at everybody about rounded corners and then everybody realising five years later that this is actually a much bigger deal than everbody except Jobs saw at the time" -- in other words, pretty invisible.
- prewett 9y agoI'm curious, how were the round corners important? I like them, and I buy his argument that nothing in the real world has sharp corners, but Android has had sharp corners forever. (I'm asking because I'd like to know the answer, not because I'm asserting the opposite.)
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- mseebach 9y agoI really don't know. It just seems to be once of the anecdotes people use to illustrate the genius of Jobs.
- digi_owl 9y agoBest i can tell, the latter crops up because of boardroom meddling pushing the focus towards quarterly earnings rather than long term sustainability of the company.
- ethani 9y agoYea... and what about every other chip maker who also have the same exploits? Can someone explain whether AMD and Qualcomm licensed this tech or if they also independently made the same mistakes? Either way, we really haven't seen much activity from them either.
- bipson 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
- StudentStuff 9y agoThere are fewer people trying to attack AMD's chips, they comprise such a small chunk of the installed CPU base out there that most attacker's won't be going after a system containing a CPU from AMD. This may change in the next year or two though, at which point the vulns that are likely in their Platform Security Processor may bite them in the ass. Qualcomm on the other hand has taken the "fuck security" approach and failed to clean up their code and get it mainlined for nearly all of their common SoCs. Hence why Android phones are often trapped on old versions of Android when launched or shortly thereafter, long term security through the device lifecycle is a bad joke when Qualcomm and most other ARM vendors are involved.
- nolok 9y ago> Hence why Android phones are often trapped on old versions of Android when launched or shortly thereafter The reason why most android phones don't get upgrades (or only one) to newer android versions has absolutely nothing to do with qualcomm lack of care regarding their cpu's security.
- izacus 9y agoActually it's one of the major reasons. When Qualcomm stops providing support for a SoC, the OEMs can't update the device even if they wanted to. It's not the only reason, but it is a very major blocker.
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- mpweiher 9y agoThe part of the lifecycle where the clueless have taken over: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
- mkohlmyr 9y agoThat is an excellent bit of writing. Thanks for the link!
- mpweiher 9y agoAlso part basis for Erik Dietrich's Developer Hegemony.
- watmough 9y agoA masterpiece of writing! A tour-de-force!
- rsync 9y agoI highly recommend all of ribbonfarm and especially: - ancient rivers of money - The Return of the Barbarian - Can Hydras eat unknown unknowns for lunch There is also a more recent one where he writes about young people and their attitudes about money and property ownership and "life scripts" that was here on HN and metafilter and other places but I don't know the name of it ... was quite good.
- cannam 9y agoSounds like "The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial" https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l... No, I don't know how I came to be replying about Ribbonfarm a day late to a comment deep in a thread I haven't read most of.